Unity Venus's Club [v9.5.0.1] [Disgruntler]

[EloeM]

Tobe
ok, now game looks brilliant and have much more then at beginning, big thank you for all your work
few ideas for improvements/policies
- auto extender [ possible added to negotiator or some other improvement/policies ? must be expensive]
- more boots? more girls
- i presume some categories may need to be rebuild/extended/ be more precise?
- more clubs when influence is bigger? [ need to do something with money ]
- gifts for girls?
- lessons need to be refined, i have try to do it, but is hard [ anyway for me ]
- pose-toys only available when bought ?
- dungeons?
- pimps - street advertising?

for guide to be more precise, as there seems to be still some issues:
- small portrait/ portrait define [ exact size, aspect, etc. ]
- videos preferred format and size [ first one is there but still for some reason some mp4 videos are keep hanging, maybe full vp8 ? ]
- as above, maybe categories may need to be redefined, i know it will be painful, but i think with dedication of this community its doable ?

 

[nashorn95z]

@Tobe

We need a 'Skip the Work' function. Sometimes i just need some money and dont wand to repeat the the work until i earn enough. A summary of the skipped work shift with some details like money and some events with vids would be nice.
It would make the game more enjoyable for me.

 

[tibal88]

https://f95zone.to/threads/venuss-club-v6-tobe.48941/post-3700764
I just post the link for Jade Jantzen the next one his Pristine Edge.

 

[rbaxt]

Tobe
ok, now game looks brilliant and have much more then at beginning, big thank you for all your work
few ideas for improvements/policies
- auto extender [ possible added to negotiator or some other improvement/policies ? must be expensive]
- more boots? more girls
- i presume some categories may need to be rebuild/extended/ be more precise?
- more clubs when influence is bigger? [ need to do something with money ]
- gifts for girls?
- lessons need to be refined, i have try to do it, but is hard [ anyway for me ]
- pose-toys only available when bought ?
- dungeons?
- pimps - street advertising?

for guide to be more precise, as there seems to be still some issues:
- small portrait/ portrait define [ exact size, aspect, etc. ]
- videos preferred format and size [ first one is there but still for some reason some mp4 videos are keep hanging, maybe full vp8 ? ]
- as above, maybe categories may need to be redefined, i know it will be painful, but i think with dedication of this community its doable ?

For the portraits sizes:

portrait 2:3 600 x 900 pixels
portrait_small 1:1 120 x 120 pixels

If you are using a PC there is a built in photo cropping tool where you can change the aspect ratio, and easiest way to change pixel size is through paint. There is a resize button near the top left of the screen toggle over to the pixel selection and type in either the horizontal or vertical and it will get you close enough the the correct size. Hope that helps.

 

[Tobe]

Tobe
ok, now game looks brilliant and have much more then at beginning, big thank you for all your work
few ideas for improvements/policies
- auto extender [ possible added to negotiator or some other improvement/policies ? must be expensive]
- more boots? more girls
- i presume some categories may need to be rebuild/extended/ be more precise?
- more clubs when influence is bigger? [ need to do something with money ]
- gifts for girls?
- lessons need to be refined, i have try to do it, but is hard [ anyway for me ]
- pose-toys only available when bought ?
- dungeons?
- pimps - street advertising?

for guide to be more precise, as there seems to be still some issues:
- small portrait/ portrait define [ exact size, aspect, etc. ]
- videos preferred format and size [ first one is there but still for some reason some mp4 videos are keep hanging, maybe full vp8 ? ]
- as above, maybe categories may need to be redefined, i know it will be painful, but i think with dedication of this community its doable ?

Thanks for the suggestions! Some of those are in my mind, others are new. I'll add some of them in the future.

As for the portraits and videos, exact aspect ratio is in the "How to" file. Exact size doesn't matter. Big portraits need an image of ratio 2:3 with size at least 600x900. Videos in MP4 .h264 should work properly (assuming you have the codecs). The same goes with WEBM VP8. WEBM is recommended though. As for forcing MP4, this is possible but would kill a good amount of packs, so I won't do it.

@Tobe

We need a 'Skip the Work' function. Sometimes i just need some money and dont wand to repeat the the work until i earn enough. A summary of the skipped work shift with some details like money and some events with vids would be nice.
It would make the game more enjoyable for me.

I understand what you're saying but I feel like that would also pretty much kill the game aspect of the game. I'll consider it though. Maybe when there is more stuff to do outside of the main work gameplay loop.


As a note, in case there is doubt, I started working on adding story and interactions with Nicole in the game as it is the most voted on.

 

[zzczys]

One goal for Nicole would be to recruit her as one of the girls hehe that should be fun. Maybe another story to recruit the gang girl?

About the police connection resource;

You get interruptions based on reputation. Starting from city hall inspectors, town councilors, the mayor, politicians, state attorney. They want to hire some of your girls in exchange for not interrupting your business, player choice. Interruption could be close for several days or monetary fine. More reputation would bring more heavy penalty. Hired girls might be unavailable until next day with 0 energy? Gain connection based on how good the girl stats are? Use connections to fend off interruptions, or access more porn stars?

Just some ideas.

 

[khumak]

Are there different formats for the girlpacks for the 32 vs 64 bit versions? I played a bunch with the 64 bit version and everything worked fine except I had a few crashes (not frequent so it's still quite playable).

Decided to try the 32 bit version to see if it was more stable and there are zero girls available to hire if I use the exact same girlpacks that work fine for me in the 64 bit version. If I remove the girlpacks then the default girls are there to be hired. I didn't have this issue with previous versions. Loading a saved game also didn't work for me in the 32 bit version. If I go to load and click on a save nothing happens. It doesn't give me an error or crash but it also doesn't load the save.

 

[EloeM]

that looks promising Tobe
sorry i like to digg stuff out

 

[Tobe]

that looks promising Tobe
sorry i like to digg stuff out
View attachment 738964

Don't get too excited, this is just a default Unity config file. It simply means that Unity is capable of handling VR (and in this case, that it is not used for the game).
There is absolutely no plan to use VR in any way.

 

[tibal88]

Hello
i add several name of girlpacks that i will do. follow the link below to see the names add:
https://f95zone.to/threads/venuss-club-v6-tobe.48941/post-3700764
I'll be posting the Pristine Edge pack by tonight.

Have a nice day and enjoy

 

[tibal88]

https://f95zone.to/threads/venuss-club-v6-tobe.48941/post-3700764
I just post the link for Pristine Edge the next one his Eliza Ibarra.

 

[Dollars303]

Hey tibal88 thanks for the pack and there is a girl pack section here https://f95zone.to/threads/girlpack-releases-for-venuss-club-tobe.54956/ for future packs.

 

[ThroneAweigh]

I really like this concept for a game, and it was a smart move to immediately make it mod-able so that your playerbase can focus on creating content to keep interest in the game between patches.

After playing and modding it for a couple of days, most of my issues with the game are UI/Layout and implementation problems. It’s mostly programmer art, and I understand that, but settling on a layout that would benefit your game’s goals is something worth doing early on. I studied UX and was looking for a job in gamedev before the pandemic, so sorry if I come off pretentious or like an asshole, I’m just eager to flex my knowledge and help.



UI critiques:

It’s no secret that this is inspired by the Yakuza Cabaret minigame, but your ‘shift’ layout isn’t really beneficial to your player’s enjoyment of watching porn or leveling girls. You followed Yakuza’s UI pretty closely, and while it works… it could be better.

Working girl’s necessary stats are inconvenient to find. Customers come requesting specific things, but your girls might not be able to do them. The only way to check is to click through them all and read the text at the bottom or try dragging and dropping (which opens up a pop-up. Same with the level of their work. Yakuza’s use of ranks and gauges instead of numbers makes their UI easier to read.

The extend/finish and assistance notification/buttons are small and inconveniently placed. Sometimes I’d get really focused on enjoying a single show and not catch two girls needing an extension. The cabaret club doesn’t have this problem because it takes you to a whole new screen for it, but that’s not really a good solution for your game.

Text boxes that you have to click through on the 'next' button. If I don't have the option to do anything else, just let me click anywhere to proceed, or at least the whole textbox.



Gameplay Critiques:

Extensions are guaranteed. Make them a function of a girl’s skill and her popularity. Or the client’s preferences. Give me an incentive to level up girls besides wanting to watch their scenes!

Finishing on dancing/posing. Nothing really wrong with it, but a customer getting to watch a girl dance then cum in her butt seems weird to me.

Timing and booths. I don’t know for certain, but it really seems that the delay between customers and length of sessions are nearly static between each tier. Randomization of those times (with a maximum and minimum value) would add a bit more interactivity to the shift.

Auto-Assist. The condom/cigarette/drink/drugs automation kinda trivializes an entire section of your game. If I were you, I’d remove the last tier (or make them extremely expensive) and have players rely on the black-market based automation if they want an easy night to one-hand it to. I’d also make the black-market automation cost influence to use per shift.

Client preference for girls. Earning more money by giving the clients either specifically requested girls or attributes you can reference/add to the profile/JSON. Body type, bust size, hair color, age ranges. Ethnicity, tattoos, and big butts are all ideas that come to mind.

 

[Jack-O]

Working girl’s necessary stats are inconvenient to find. Customers come requesting specific things, but your girls might not be able to do them. The only way to check is to click through them all and read the text at the bottom or try dragging and dropping (which opens up a pop-up. Same with the level of their work. Yakuza’s use of ranks and gauges instead of numbers makes their UI easier to read.

You can simply click on the client and you'll see all girls who can perform for the client get a colored border.
A) Girl who can't? They won't get a colored border.
B) Girls who can perform get red/orange/yellow/green borders, from less skilled -> best skilled
C) After you clicked client and see the girls who can perform for said client? Double click on the girl you want to select and she'll get to it.

For the girls who can perform for the client but won't do the prefered finish? I haven't found a different way yet either. I might be missing something, dunno.

Ps. I kinda dislike the "ranks" idea. And no need because we can select different performance types per booth and (as I typed above) you can simply see with 1 mouse click if girls can perform for the client or not. But that's just my opinion.

Pps. I personally don't care what you think. And I don't understand why it's not in the review section. lol

 

[ThroneAweigh]

You can simply click on the client and you'll see all girls who can perform for the client get a colored border.
A) Girl who can't? They won't get a colored border.
B) Girls who can perform get red/orange/yellow/green borders, from less skilled -> best skilled
C) After you clicked client and see the girls who can perform for said client? Double click on the girl you want to select and she'll get to it.

For the girls who can perform for the client but won't do the prefered finish? I haven't found a different way yet either. I might be missing something, dunno.

Ps. I kinda dislike the "ranks" idea. And no need because we can select different performance types per booth and (as I typed above) you can simply see with 1 mouse click if girls can perform for the client or not. But that's just my opinion.

Pps. I personally don't care what you think. And I don't understand why it's not in the review section. lol

I didn't know that bit about clicking on clients. I might have missed it in the tutorial.

ps. And I'm not saying to use the ranks idea, but the reason Yakuza can just display naked ranks is because a single colored letter is easier to parse than digits.

pps. This wasn't posted in the review section because I'm not reviewing the game so much as I'm giving advice to the dev about some things I noticed.

 

[Sithlord86]

You can simply click on the client and you'll see all girls who can perform for the client get a colored border.
A) Girl who can't? They won't get a colored border.
B) Girls who can perform get red/orange/yellow/green borders, from less skilled -> best skilled
C) After you clicked client and see the girls who can perform for said client? Double click on the girl you want to select and she'll get to it.

For the girls who can perform for the client but won't do the prefered finish? I haven't found a different way yet either. I might be missing something, dunno.

Ps. I kinda dislike the "ranks" idea. And no need because we can select different performance types per booth and (as I typed above) you can simply see with 1 mouse click if girls can perform for the client or not. But that's just my opinion.

Pps. I personally don't care what you think. And I don't understand why it's not in the review section. lol

That's a new one for me. Best hint I've had in a long time. This is going to save me some time. Thanks.

 

[khumak]

Just thought I'd make a further report on crashes. With the autosaves it's not a big deal that the game crashes once in awhile but I do still get them every 30 mins or so. I thought it was worth noting with my latest crash that the only girls I had working at the time were the base girls included with the game, no girlpack girls. So whatever the cause, it's not just some wonky girlpack doing it.

Usually when I crash I get some sort of popup like it's trying to install something but it goes away too fast for me to tell what it is. This time rather than actually crash, the interface froze with the audio from one of the videos on a permanent loop and no videos actually playing. I had to kill the game with the task manager to recover. I didn't enable the audio on any of the videos but it plays occasionally whether it's enabled or not. I can disable it and then it stops playing.

I'm playing the 64 bit windows version. The 32 bit version doesn't work for me for the latest version. Not sure what's up with that since previous versions did. When I tried the 32 bit version, I can start a new game but there are zero girls available to hire so it's impossible to do anything.

 

[hotmike]

You can simply click on the client and you'll see all girls who can perform for the client get a colored border.

Do you know how long it took me to find that out? Not obvious at all. So yes, a great thing to improve in UI, great points ThroneAweigh !

 

[Masterclone]

Just thought I'd make a further report on crashes. With the autosaves it's not a big deal that the game crashes once in awhile but I do still get them every 30 mins or so. I thought it was worth noting with my latest crash that the only girls I had working at the time were the base girls included with the game, no girlpack girls. So whatever the cause, it's not just some wonky girlpack doing it.

Usually when I crash I get some sort of popup like it's trying to install something but it goes away too fast for me to tell what it is. This time rather than actually crash, the interface froze with the audio from one of the videos on a permanent loop and no videos actually playing. I had to kill the game with the task manager to recover. I didn't enable the audio on any of the videos but it plays occasionally whether it's enabled or not. I can disable it and then it stops playing.

I'm playing the 64 bit windows version. The 32 bit version doesn't work for me for the latest version. Not sure what's up with that since previous versions did. When I tried the 32 bit version, I can start a new game but there are zero girls available to hire so it's impossible to do anything.

Think you got to be more specific about PC specs and so on, because it has to be something that your PC doesn't like thats making it crash.

I've played this game a lot, got 85 girlpacks loaded and i haven't crashed a single time

Edit: First time when i unpacked the game my AV/firewall tried to eat some unity files. Maybe yours ate a file but game still works?

 

[Rizzk]

I dont have any Pictures of the girls, I've downloaded some and they do not show they all have portrait.jpg/portrait_small.jpg or portrait.png/portrait_small.png inside the images Folder.